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John Butler Yeats (16 March 1839 – 3 February 1922) was an Irish artist and the father of W. B. Yeats, Lily Yeats, Elizabeth Corbett "Lolly" Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats. The National Gallery of Ireland holds a number of his portraits in oil and works on paper, including one of his portraits of his son William, painted in 1900. [1]
Jack Butler Yeats (born August 23, 1871, London, England—died March 28, 1957, Dublin, Ireland) was the most important Irish painter of the 20th century. His scenes of daily life and Celtic mythology contributed to the surge of nationalism in the Irish arts after the Irish War of Independence (1919–21).
John Butler Yeats (1839–1922) was a portrait painter who failed as a businessman but enjoyed artistic success in Ireland and America. He was the father of the poet W. B. Yeats and the grandfather of the artist Jack B. Yeats.
William Butler Yeats [a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years.
Best known for his portrait of the young WB Yeats - one of several of his paintings in the Yeats museum in the National Gallery of Ireland - his masterpiece is generally considered to be his portrait of John O'Leary (1904).
Creador del estilo celta crepuscular, fue sin duda el máximo representante del renacimiento de la literatura irlandesa moderna, y uno de los autores más destacados del siglo XX. Recibió el Premio Nobel de literatura en 1923.
19 de ago. de 2016 · Books. Truth before beauty: how John B Yeats and James Joyce made case for Ulysses. Arguments made in Dublin debating societies by Yeats in 1865 and Joyce in 1900 would transform obscenity...
